Whoa Nelly! Lots of Snape, was Harry in NEWT Potions Class?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 87763

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:
> Pip!Squeak:
> 
> OK, I'll bite. Let's look at the Occlumency lessons, shall we?
> 
> [All references are to Order of the Phoenix, UK hardback edition]
> 
> 
> 
> I dunno. It might be just me, but maybe, just maybe, Snape thought 
> that continuing the Occlumency lessons was too much of a risk for 
> *Harry*? That maybe, if he'd lost control once, he might lose it 
> again? Only this time Harry might fall hard enough to break his 
> back, or his neck?
> 
> So, no, the discontinuation of the Occlumency lessons do not 
provide 
> canon for `Snape hates Harry because of James.' They certainly 
> provide canon for `Snape hates James', and they also show yet again 
> that Snape can be very unpleasant towards Harry.
> 
> But if Snape actually did lose control in that final Occlumency 
> lesson, then he is not trying to harm Harry by discontinuing them. 
> He's trying to protect him.
> 
> As he has done throughout the books to date.
> 
> Pip!Squeak


Pip, when I was saying that "Snape hates Harry" is now pretty much 
canon, I did not mean that his behaviour during Occlumency lessons 
showed that clearly enough (to me at least).

I meant that him STOPPING the lessons shows that. Now, I don't want 
to argue about your vivid description of Snape's actions. I agree 
with that.

He stopped the lessons to PROTECT Harry? That is something totally 
different. I understand that you find nothing wrong in Snape's 
actions, ever and it is your right, your prerrogative.

Let me ask you a uestion. So, Snape was the only danger to Harry? It 
did not matter what Voldemort could do to him?

Obviously, Snape knew of the reason why Harry should be taught 
Occlumency and he still stopped the lessons. You expect me to agree 
that he did it for Harry's own good.

I hope you don't mind me writing to you off list. I want to ask you 
something.

Alla